High Availability, Replication, and Failover Explained with Stuffed Animals
My 2-year-old daughter’s favorite stuffed animal, “Meow-Meow,” is a critical ...
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What is Python's Default Hash Algorithm?
A friend of mine wondered recently, What is Python’s default hash algorit...
Poetry Is My Favorite Python Dependency Manager
A Story February 2021. Maintainers of the cryptography package release a new...
Rewriting an API to Use FastAPI: Benchmarks and Lessons Learned
Last week at work, I rewrote an API to use FastAPI and as much async Python a...
Scaling Django with Postgres Read Replicas
Replication is a feature of PostgreSQL that you typically use to achieve high...
Building Implicit Interfaces in Python with Protocol Classes
Python 3.8 shipped one of the coolest features I’ve seen in a recent Python v...
Why Does Python Have a len() Function?
New Python users are often surprised to learn that you call a global function...
Recording Pro Audio and Video at Home with iPads and iPhones
In January, I started a new job writing and producing technical education vid...
iPad Play Dates in the Time of Coronavirus
Oregon schools closed over two months ago to prevent the spread of COVID-19. ...